[2.6] Ngamahu’s Flame Cyclone Ranger (Raider)

Intro & build description

Haven’t played cyclone yet? Well, this is your chance. Most satisfying to play cyclone build currently out there. Only requirement is Ngamahu’s Flame, you can do fine with any rare axe till you farm up currency to buy one. Straightforward gameplay, spin into packs and kill everything in matter of seconds while dropping Molten Burst procs for even more damage.

Build uniques / Example rare gear

2Hand Weapon

Amulet

Great amulet to have for this build, since 10% fire penetration is huge dps boost. Not necessity though, any unique or rare amulet will do just fine, although with current passive tree it’s assumed that you have this amulet.

Solid, as you are going HC, I would suggest getting more life on the tree. 166% is bit too low. Might consider switching Savagery for Vigour close to duelist area for extra endurance charge. I suggest to get % increased maximum life on every jewel. We are waiting for 2.6 to go live so we can update links to passive skill trees.

Thanks for the feedback! I agree with the life thing, and as a matter of fact i apparently had forgotten to allocate the Bloodless cluster in the build i linked, which would give and additional 23% life. That being said I decided to try out the build in Path of Building, with gem setups and Ngahamu + Xoph’s blood + Carcass Jack, and I came to some interesting results. Most notably that the Primeval Force WED cluster isn’t actually worth taking (lower DPS per point than Slaughter/Cleaving/Wrecking Ball), even when full flask uptime is assumed. I also decided to pick up IR because why not.

With that in mind the new and (hopefully) improved tree would look like this:

We haven’t specifically made leveling tree for this build – rule of thumb would be to take half damage and half survivability nodes while leveling and it should work out well. Also get Ngamahu’s Flame and Xoph’s Blood as soon as you can.

Genuinely curious why most cyclone builds take “Resolute technique”? I understand cyclone hits a lot but you have a lot of accuracy rating. Just can’t comprehend why just giving up crit chance is a good idea, I must be missing something.